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Fifty-three percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, a Gallup poll showed on Friday, a marked reversal from just a year ago when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony. 上周五发布的一项盖洛普民意调查显示，53%的美国人支持同性婚姻合法化，而在一年之前，有同样多的人对同性婚姻表示反对，形势发生了明显的逆转。 The latest Gallup findings are in line with two earlier national polls this spring that show support for legally recognized gay marriage has, in recent months, gained a newfound majority among Americans. 最新的盖洛普民意调查结果和今春的两项全国性民意调查结果一致，这表明支持同性婚姻合法化的美国人在近几个月来占据了绝大多数，这是前所未有的。 Gallup said Democrats and political independents accounted for the entire shift in its survey compared to last year, when only 44 percent of all respondents favored gay marriage, while 53 percent were opposed. The percentage of Republicans favoring same-sex matrimony held steady at 28 percent. 盖洛普称，和去年的调查相比，民主党人和无党派人士的态度转变是造成这一逆转的主要原因。去年受访者中只有44%支持同性婚姻，而有53%反对同性婚姻。支持同性婚姻的共和党人比例稳定地保持在28%。 Same-sex marriage remains a highly contested issue in U.S. politics, but homosexual couples have won the right to legally wed in five states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa -- and the District of Columbia. Gay couples have faced setbacks elsewhere, and no statewide initiative to legalize gay marriage has ever won a majority vote. | 
